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Let me take a break and indulge the car buffs among us. In every country there's something to be said about their rides. Here in Guinea, the king is the Peugeot 505. The 504 is the myth in all West Afric (I've talked about it back in Nigeria), but here it's been steadily replaced by the more modern 505 (launched in '79). Let's head for the town's taxi stop and have a look.
Quite a few cars around, and not one single Landcruiser. Too bloody expensive. Not really needed.
My bike attracts quite a bit of attention, but this guy's assuring me it's safe to park it here. Let's see what we have.
The only 505 worth considering of course is the break (station-wagon). They add another row of seats in the boot (trunk), reinforce the suspensions and voilà: taxi-brousse (bush taxi).
Nah, this ain't no wreck, it's a fully functional taxi waiting for his passengers. There are other models too, a Merced..
Ok, make this a Renault 21. Not quite as successful as the Peugeot, but it's French, so it's got to be fixable, right ?
Ahh, here we go, the 504. Still running like new, probably between 500'000 and 1'000'000 km on the clock - difficult to say as the odometer is dead and all parts don't come from the same original car.
Not as roomy as the 505, though.
The boot is small so you can fit less people inside than in the 505 with its 3rd row of seats. The major reason for its popularity. Let's take a tour of this one, quite a beauty:
Official color scheme of the taxis, it seems.
It's a GR, so a petrol engine.
Center control lock - not!
The all-important roof rack, home made. Looks pretty sturdy too.
The ski rack is still there - just in case it starts to snow.
Some expert welder has been at work here. Quite an artist.
The fuel tank door with a fake carbon sticker on top. Classic. And a handle to hold on it case you've forgotten to pull the handbrake while you're refueling (or something like that).
- What, no window handle ?
- Power windows, stupid!
The inside is classy. Way above average.
Front seats and dashboard are quite OK, if a little dusty. Not sure the tapes like it.
Dusty it is. But who looks at the instruments anyway ? they're probably not working.
Blaupunkt car radio with tape deck. Custom gear knob.
And the final touch, the cracked windshield. Oh yeah we'll have a new spare wheel with that
Hope you've enjoyed it. Then why not rent one ?
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Hahaha - i really liked your story about the peugeot-taxi.
And the rest of the story as well - glad you finish this report, as I've been following it a long time.
Keep up the good work and thank you
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'nuff about the 4-wheelers. Back to the real stuff.
The road leads me north into West Africa biggest (only ?) mountains, the Fouta-Djalon. Of course it's nowhere close as awesome as the Ethiopian high plateau, but I'm not complaining. It's amazing how quickly the landscape changes with elevation at this latitude.
I can't believe I'm seeing some pine trees over here. It's lunch time so I manage to get myself a quick rice 'n beans, nothing fancy here, whatever the mamma on the road is cooking will do it. And a lukewarm coke, no power here.
Back on the crappy road, it doesn't take long until I take a left turn on a nice gravel road in open land.
With some patches of real forest.
That deteriorates in a pretty rough road not long after, I feel bad sorry about those poor guys driving it in a battered Peugeot (see previous post) at 20 km/h. Or on a moped. But it's perfect for me, the scenery is beautiful and I'm having a blast.
I'm looking for a place around Douki that can organize a trek in the area. There's absolutely no sign post on the main "road", but I know there's a touristy kind of camp around here. I have to ask around to find it; the thing is, all people come here as part of a tour, or with a taxi from the nearest town, and the drivers know the place, so there's no need for any signposting. That's a pretty neat place, the owner's a great guy, and he's built the bungalows according to the local style.
The overhanging thatched roof goes very low (the kid is only 5 or 6), so you have to literally crouch to get in.
And all you-can-eat tangerine trees! There isn't a lot of people here, just one Israeli who's been staying here for a while and been trekking around. I discuss my options and we decide with the owner and chief guide that I would go tomorrow on a 1-day trek down and up the cliff. That's the main attraction here, the cliff that reminds me a little of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali. Same-same but different, as the Indians would say.
The way down is on a nice path with great views down on the valley - although during the dry season it's always a bit dry.
We follow a couple of villagers returning to their home, the woman wearing a big bundle on her head, through some very slippery stones into a stream.
Her husband? he ain't carrying nothing, why the question ?
The valley floor is very lush, with waterfalls providing the water for irrigation.
The villages are a bit further away, but it's time to come back up. He was saying something about ladders ?
Ah, right. Just some long branches tied together and thrown into a narrow fault in the cliff. But that's the shortest way up and all the villagers climb up here.
We sweat a few liters going up (I mean, I sweat a lot), as it's still pretty hot out here. Nice walk altogether. I spend another day resting here and chatting with people - the Israeli's left but a couple of French girls have just arrived. And it's about time for me to check my options for reaching Dakar.
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Mountains in Guinea
I'm totally enjoying the mountains here in Guinea. It's beautiful, cool, and the people are great. I keep riding straight north toward Mali, not the country but a small town sitting in a remote corner of the mountains, close to the Sénégal border. The road leads first to Labé, the last sizeable town over here. Fill up with petrol, check my e-mail (not working), get some food and..
wait, is it what I think it is ?
yup, proper coffee, not Nescafé! I've to go all around Africa to find the 2nd country where they grow coffee and actually know how to brew it (the first being Ethiopia of course). Nice.
At last I also decide to swap the rear tyre for the knobby one I'm carrying on my back. I expect some hard off-roading ahead. As I'm as lazy as the next rider, I head across the street for the shop with the compressor and hand them my rear wheel and the tyre.
I'm always watching as they like it rough, and usually it goes fine.
Not this time, the guy rips off the valve taking out the inner tube. I knew it would happen one day, good thing I've got a spare.
What do you mean, it's worn out ? naah.
No more crappy tar.
Not much traffic either, hopefully, as the dust kills you.
There's even a grader at work, a bit of a luxury over here. I keep going up. We're not talking Ethiopia-like mountains here, Mali tops out at around 1400 m only. It sits almost on a ridge with nice lookouts. It supposed to have some good hiking so it must have a hotel of some sort.
The "roads" are very bad, and pretty steep too. First hotel is closed, second one too. Finally I find one at the top of the town, there's even a shower of some sort. With buckets, yeah, but a shower it is. And power from the solar panels. I decide to take my time visiting the place.
It's indeed a beautiful place, much dryer than the lowlands so the vegetation is very different.
Not much to buy from the market, some vegetables, few fruits. The locals seem to eat TONS of baguette - thank you Froggies for that, although the baker doesn't like to get up early, so the bread comes in the afternoon only.
The main (only) hang-out at night seems to be the barn transformed into a theater, showing Champion's League football (what else?). My home team is playing so I pay the $0.50 to get in and watch a game with the other locals.
The next morning the kids go to school, apparently it's a madrasa (quranic school) from the writing on their tablets. You know, like real tablets where you can scribble on, not the high-tech gadgetry Apple is making in China..
Meanwhile their fathers are building a new house. Speaking of old style...
An old Berliet, like the ones you see in French movies of the 60's.
And the quite popular and sturdy ZIL soviet truck.
I ask around about the road to Sénégal, the maps I have are confusing. There seem to be 2 ways to get down the escarpment, a direct, steep track that only 4x4s take and the main road making a long detour. The locals have different opinion on whether I should take the direct route or head back for an easier way. Of course they have no idea what is passable or not on such a bike. For me the decision is easy: I'll go for the direct, steep descent, it looks much more fun.
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Thanks for the great report, you clearly get so much closer to the people and places when you're going solo.
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I've decided for the rough track, but it doesn't look that long, although it's obviously not on my Michelin 741 West Africa map. I take off late in the morning on the double track the hotel manager has shown me.
It takes me through a beautiful landscape of red earth and green leaves.
I can imagine it must be even more impressive during the rainy season, when the green is much brighter. But then I wouldn't have made it here in the wet of course. I overtake a 4x4 loaded with passengers slowly making its way down the track. I like to ride in front of them, knowing that if something happens there will be somebody to give me a hand.
At one point the track crosses a village, which is closed of by a gate at both ends. I suspect this is so that the villagers can extract a fee from the passing vehicles. One advantage of showing up in a funny vehicle is that you often get a free ride. In this case the kids come running in excitement and usher me in. Then they run after me as if I were Justin Bieber visiting a teenager girl's school. I slow down for them to catch up with me and they open the exit door and wave me farewell with big smiles. Priceless.
After a few kms of skirting the edge of the cliff, the road starts to climb down. (Sorry for the change in the picture's colors, I've got 2 cameras and they render colors differently. These ones are more realistic)
Excellent ride, it couldn't be better really.
And then the track gets really rough. I need to careful calculate my line to avoid banging my bashplate on the big rocks, and usually there's only one good line no more than 2 tires wide that gets you safely through.
The double track really is a single track for all but 4x4s with high clearance.
Until of course, in a corner while looking for the ideal line I slow down too much, lose my balance and drop my bike. It's a fine balance between keeping enough speed for stability but not too much that you're scraping the bash plate. Ground clearance is key, but also good suspensions and the BMW's aren't the best, especially with a bit of weight.
I pick up my bike and stop for a few pics. By going solo the downside is, I don't get many shots of me riding. When it's technical you've got better things to take care of than take a picture of yourself.. so when I drop it first I snap a pic, I drink, rest a bit, etc..
I take my time so the 4x4 is catching up with me. Actually, first the passengers join mw, because the ride is so rough that they prefer to walk down while the Toyota is inching its way down. That's where the 4-wheelers win: they can go as slow as they want when it gets really rough, we don't have this option.
Finally after may more close calls and a lot of sweating I reach the bottom of the valley.
The track is much less bumpy, I can relax and enjoy it.
It soon turns into smooth laterite, and I find out I have a fifth gear. This is Africa at it's best, you move in 1 hour from very technical challenging stuff to high-speed double tracks, all in beautiful surroundings and not a vehicle to spoil your fun.
As I reach a river I see a some life: people come to wash their clothes (or themselves I presume).
I was expecting a border crossing at some point. Only when I see the rope in the middle of the village do I realize it's here. I stop and look around, but it's all thatched huts. A uniformed guy gets out of one of them and comes to me. He's a bit curious about what the heck am I doing here, so we chat a bit. I follow him to his hut and he quickly stamps me out. I enquire about the customs for the carnet, knowing well that there was probably nothing like this here. But the guy tell me no problem, but he needs a few minutes. While he walks away with my carnet in hand and look a place where they're cooking. I'm a bit hungry since I've left late in the morning and it' snow well past noon. I order a plate of rice and mutton, with a lukewarm coke. While I'm eating the border official comes back with my carnet stamped out, with a big smile and another "bon voyage".
Frankly, this ought to be the nicest border crossing in all Africa! But I'm only half done, the dreaded Senegalese border is "about 20 keys" away according to the official. Well rested and fed I get on the bike on the nice double track.
I get confused a bit as there are now several crossings, but there are also always somebody who can tell me the right way. The scenery changes radically as the forrest has been burnt down. The road is also pretty badly potholed so it needs a lot of attention when riding fast. Not the place where you want to break a rim.
I thought I was done with the technical riding, but there's another ridge to climb down, and this one is just as bad. I had caught up with a 4x4, and as I stop he also stops to let the passengers out. Again they will walk the rough part. I look at the line and need to move a few rocks to fill the larger holes where I would bottom out. The driver joins me and we work on the road together, exchanging thoughts about the quality of the road.
I go first and just 50 m down I drop it again. This time it falls down on the mirror and breaks it.. at last. I had imagine this would be one of the first thing to break in the trip, but it had survived the worst until my last rough ride of the whole trip! The driver is right behind me and jumps out to help me right my bike.
At the bottom of the track is the first Senegalese village, and the border. Now, Sénégal is a usually the first country in Africa that the overlanders reach when coming down the west coast, which gives them the first experience of dealing with corrupt border guards (Morocco and Mauritania are usually quite tame). The border between Mauritania and Sénégal at Rosso is famous for the chaos of fixers harassing you, the officials extracting bribes from you and the general nastiness of it. For me it would the last one when I exit Sénégal later on.
But here it's like another world. I go to the immigration, and the guys there make me step in front of the queue skipping the passengers of the 4x4 that was following me, and who've reached the village first. We chat a bit, they stamp me in and bonne arrivée! They ask for a cadeau, but I crack a joke and that's about it. In 5 minutes I'm done and on my way to the next sizable city, Kédougou, where I should visit the customs to get my carnet stamped.
The road to get there is quite decent and passable for all kind of cars. In fact it's a bit touristy as there are some villages that are worth visiting, according to a guidebook. I decide to carry on to the next town and do a bit of maintenance and possibly get a cold beer or two.. I pass twice in front of the customs building in Kédougou without seeing it. I manage to find the official who knows about Carnet. Or at least who's got the right stamp. I help him sort out which one to put where, and he then just wishes me a nice trip and I can go (note that I'd already secured a Yellow Card insurance for all of West Africa so I'm good in this side).
It's nothing like coming from Mauritania, where the same custom officials want a backshish to fill your papers, then to pay for a passe-avant, buy an over-priced insurance, and finally require you to go to Dakar to stamp your carnet...! so that's the proof that there's no law like this and that it's just a small gang of crooks who run the border there as they wish and take advantage of the gullible white people with pockets full of cash. In fact the money corrupts them.
Looking for accommodation, it's immediately obvious that I'm in a different country. There are a few high-end lodges caring for tourists coming here for the Niokolo-Koba park. Finally I haggle down a reasonable price for a room without bathroom, and I try to mangle with rich French tourists, while I feel a bit disconnected with their centers of interest.
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I was excited to read about the downhill bit!
How is your TT tank holding up?
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The 505
The 505 is amazing. Trash it in the dirt, then go 150kph on pavement and it rides like a Benz. The best suspension around. I beat them around West Africa, just great cars. Thieves love them, as do those who strip the lights, wheels, and windows. The 404 was a tough car as well.
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Another annoying thing: the lid is leaking when the bike is laying down.
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Bring it home
Laurent - I've been following your ride report for 2 fucking years!. Now bring it home! Don't top now!
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Ivory Coast
thank you for sharing your story about that formidable trip through Westafrica, especially throug the Ivory Coast. It makes me remember the time when I have been living there in the early 1980. I and my friend had both a Honda XL and travelled through the country everytime we could. With your report I can see how the country changed or not changed. Have a good time and be save.
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Tx for posting and enjoy the ride.....
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Since the other thread has been completly derailed into another direction, I figured I should make a new one, where you can post your thoughts on the actual comic.
With that said..
Ridiculously, amazingly good.
There's so much information, so many ideas and creativity that it's basically exploding from the page.
It ties back to Final Crisis and Superman beyond - that the worlds of the Multiverse sing together, everything is made out of vibrations, going all the way to the pure ideas.
This world's Superman (who is the president, as you know) encounters a (dying) Clark, Jimmy and Lois from a parellel Universe, travelling through a machine built by his world's Lex Luthor. In that parallel world they were basically Siegel & Schuster analogues - they used the vibrations to make pure thoughts, ideas you could touch, and in that process they came up with the perfect idea, the perfect man - Superman. They imagined "a champion, a thought-powered redeemer capable of saving the world. A made-up messiah" with a "code of ethics so pure and simple and good that we all wept" - and the reason they created this perfect, unbeatable idea was for the simple fact that they wished they could change lives, that they could inspire people - an idea bigger than actors, or rock stars. They imagined something bigger than themselves.
As in real life, their idea was bought by people who eventually strayed away from what it truly was supposed to be, and they created the "violent, troubled anti-hero" who is now hunting them across the Multiverse after being perverted by the thoughts and failings. Superman stopped being something meant to inspire the people out of their weaknesses, their fears and prejudices, and instead became a reflection of them. The same way Siegel & Schuster, or in this case, Clark, Lois and Jimmy wanted to be the ultimate beacon of hope of inspiration, while other people want him to be something else - it's a rather meta-critique on the way Superman's characterization and personality have changed over the years to 'fit' the times/writer's whims, moving further and further away from what he is meant to be, including the concept of 'superhero' in general.
There's so many details and tidbits to comment on, but it's better just to read it for yourself. THIS is exactly what I hoped Grant would deliver when he came on board, and he does so in spades.

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Bricco Trattoria in Glastonbury hosts a California wine dinner July 31 at 6 p.m.
The menu:
Local strawberry bellinis (Rose's Berry Farm
Local watermelon and buffalo milk mozzarella (marinated cherry tomatoes, basil, chilis and sea salt.)
Pairing: Mirabelle, Brut Rose, North Coast, Napa Valley
Potato gnocchi in the style of Portofino: fresh shrimp, Gutt Farm zucchini, basil pesto and fresh breadcrumbs
Pairing: Navarro, Chardonnay, Menodocino, 2009
Grilled prime NY sirloin: marinated string beans & Sauce Rosa, fresh corn polenta,
Pairing: Bonterra "The Butler," Butler Ranch Vineyard, Mendoncino, 2007
Lemon pound cake with Glastonbury peaches, blueberries, white chocolate and toasted almond ice cream
Pairing: Eos, Late Harvest Moscato, Paso Robles, 2011
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PALO ALTO, Calif., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Machine Zone, Inc., the successful Silicon Valley mobile social games startup, today released Race or Die 2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This social MMO RPG follow-up to Race or Die, utilizes the company's standard-setting, online chat system and shifts the action into high gear with new racing storylines, expanded in-game communities, and engrossing racing game play, plus intense, mobile PVP racing action.
"Our games represent the best of games, social community, and mobile," explains Machine Zone CEO Gabriel Leydon. "Race or Die 2 utilizes our new in-game chat system, which handles chat and messaging activity of tens of millions of players across several billion friendships within games, instantaneously and reliably. It's part of what makes our games sticky and why players are engaged with our titles years after they are launched."
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800 California St Ste 100, Mountain View, CA | Directions 9404137.391630 -122.080765
Sat: 12am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-10pm, Sun: 12am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-9:30pm, Mon-Thu: 11:30am-2pm, 5:30pm-9:30pm, Fri: 11:30am-2pm, 5:30pm-10pm
Neighborhoods: Old Mountain Views, Old Mountain View
Good and authentic Indian food – good and authentic indian food..I also liked the ambience of it!!
service is a bit on the slower side and the food is not that economical
Watch out!! they discrimate you .... – I recently went to Shiva for lunch with my 2 year old, and had a very horrible experience! I am ashamed to say there are restaurants with such attitude... We were both very hungry and were looking to seat quickly and grab the buffet. Even though there was an empty table, they wouldn't seat me -- the reasons given were: oh well, i cannot seat you on this table your kid is going to make a mess, and main traffic goes here so i cannot give this table to you ... i was shocked at how i was treated... they actually sent me back.
If you want to be discriminated for one reason or the other, go here .....
Really bad experience – I had a really bad experience at this restaurant - very bad food (thought saw something in the food) and real bad service.
Dont go!! To Shiva's !! – Hopeless place , rude hostess and equally bad quality food. We were asked repeatedly even before being seated whether we will be done in 1 hour ? I mean whats the hurry??? Then even before we could finish our starters our main course was put on the table and the waitress left ... By the time we were ready to eat our dinner it was all cold and the naan was like rubber...... Top all this with exorbitant prices and you think why did i come here? I would never recommend shiva's to anyone .
Only upscale part about this place are the prices – Very standard Indian fare with high prices. There is nothing unique or spectacular about Shivas, they actually do a buffet at lunch! $15 for average size orders of CTM and butter chicken that don't even come with any naan. I can't believe people pay these prices. Plus the service is only slightly better than what you'd find at a hole in the wall place.
Not the usual Indian buffet – Good choices and variety for Vegetarians. Tandoori Chicken was good, not too spicy. Dishes were too creamy, suitable for dieters. Appetizers include Chaat items. Service was prompt.
Happy Birthday Surprise! – We celebrated my parents 60th birthdays (same night) at Shiva's. It was a surprise, and the staff was great at keeping everything flowing accordingly. The staff was very respectful, wishing my parents a happy birthday. They not only brought out the cake that I supplied but also included their own house desserts on the house. Then they began to sing! While the food my seem a little overpriced, I think it's worth it given the ambience and service. A side note, the food is flavored from a different part of India, not often found commonly in other restaurants.
Rude hostess and dry meat – First impressions can really make or break a restaurant experience. For us, it was arriving at 6:30pm on a Thursday night and being told that there was absolutely no seats available for at least 45 minutes, even though the place was near empty. Other couples came in and were seated immediately (without asking their names) which had us puzzled. When we asked the hostess why, she refused to say anything. Make reservations ahead of time if you want to go, or else you'll be treated to a cold hostess who tells you to wait at the bar kthanksbye.
Aside from the hostess, the wait staff is very friendly and will see that you're taken care of. The food selection is unique and diverse, and the ambience is very nice.
The appetizer we had (crab cakes) were covered in cayenne pepper it was overwhelming. The lamb meat was quite dry and we couldn't even finish it because it was so coarse. The Naan was a bit too thin and crispy, cracker-like for our liking.
Overall, we had a poor experience at Shiva's. There are plenty of better Indian restaurants around the bay area that will offer higher quality food without the rudeness.
Nice Place, you should check it out. – I've been to Amber few times. I really like it, their food is excellent, their service is great and the price is not bad at all. Its not your typical Indian Buffet, but they have great variety.
Better-than-average Indian food – I love Indian food. Jsut about any Indian restaurant is fine by me. Shiva's stands out for me. Not from the variety, but from the quality. The items on the lunch buffet menu are about the same as I would expect to see in most restaurants, but the tase and quality of the ingredients is higher than almost all. This is not the case for the desserts, which were OK but standard. But the main courses are really good, and the price is quite reasonable (for the lunch buffet).
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UNC Asheville Project Explores Western North Carolina's Farmland Values; Study Results to be Presented in Madison, Haywood, Buncombe and Henderson Counties
Wed, 03/11/2009 - 12:00am
Ask area residents and visitors their opinions on the value of Western North Carolina farmland and you'll get plenty of answers. Top three greatest benefits? Locally produced food, scenic beauty, and jobs for farmers. Greatest concern? Development of farmland for non-farm use. Would they pay to preserve farmland? Yes. How much? Between $184 and $195 a year.
These are some of the findings of an innovative three-year study of farmland values just completed by UNC Asheville economist Leah Greden Mathews. The study, the first of its kind in the nation, looked beyond the agricultural value of farm to help establish the full value of rapidly disappearing farmland in Buncombe, Madison, Haywood and Henderson counties.
Mathews will present the Farmland Values Project findings, by county, at four upcoming public meetings:
-- Haywood County results, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, Haywood County Cooperative Extension Center Auditorium, Waynesville
-- Buncombe County results, 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26, UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, rooms 102 A and B, located just above Justice Center on campus
-- Henderson County results, 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, 455 Research Dr., Mills River
-- Madison County results, 7-8:30 pm. Thursday, April 9, Madison County Cooperative Extension Center Auditorium, Marshall
Mathews began the study in 2005 with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. Since that time, she and her team have surveyed hundreds of area residents and visitors, compiled and analyzed data and built an interactive Web site that farmers, rural communities and policymakers can use to better understand the different values that people have for farmland in this region.
For more information, visit www.unca.edu/farmlandvalues or contact Mathews at email@example.com or 828.251.6562.


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Users occasionally get "Out of Memory," or "Low Resources," messages, or something similar, when doing video editing. Usually, the first thought is "hey, I have a lot of RAM. What's the deal here?" Well, RAM is part of the system's memory, but is not the whole story. There is also Windows Virtual Memory, the Page File. This is HDD (Hard Disk Drive) space that serves as an overflow for RAM usage, and really comes into play with intense operations, like video editing, where everything cannot fit into RAM. Having a 64-bit OS with 64-bit programs and 24GB of fast RAM will diminish the need and use for Virtual Memory, but until all of us are running super computers with only 64-bit OS's and programs, it is very important.
Now, the Virtual Memory is setup upon installation of the OS, and it defaults to being placed on the system drive, C:\, having Windows dynamically manage it (expanding and contracting it, as is needed, but more on this later), and a general size, based on the detected, installed physical RAM. For most general computing, that works fine. For video editing, things can be improved upon.
In XP-Pro, one would change these default settings by going to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance>Advanced>Change. The location of the settings will probably be similar in other versions of Windows, but one might have to poke around a bit to get there.
Now, let's talk about some better settings. First, the location, will probably depend on a couple of factors. If one only has one physical HDD, then it's a no-brainer. It will be placed on C:\. If one has two physical HDD's, then it might be better to locate it on D:\, but one should test to see if there are any performance gains. If one has 3, or more physical HDD's, then I would definitely locate it on the least used HDD. The idea is to spread the load amongst as many HDD's, as is possible. With C:\, you have the OS and the programs fighting for reads and writes. If you can move the Page File to another HDD, you cut down on the fighting, however, if you move it to the HDD with your Project files, your Scratch Disks and your media, there might still be some struggle for HDD usage. If you can locate it away from the OS, the programs, the Projects and Scratch Disks and the Media, you will be doing well. Also, as the Page File is created at boot up, if you can get it onto a seldom used HDD, then you benefit in that it will be placed at the head of that HDD, which is faster, and when you defragment, it will be easy to keep this space clean and defragmented. Because the management of the Page File also plays a role here, that is our next subject.
With a dynamically managed Page File, the OS must anticipate the size required, and be one step ahead of the program in getting it expanded in time. This takes CPU cycles and requires a lot of monitoring by the OS. Yes, when no longer needed, the OS will contract it, but unless one has very limited HDD space, this really saves nothing, and for video editing, HDD space is extremely important, and one should not have to worry about a constant, large Page File. By being statically managed, one also gets the same size Page File written at boot up, making that defragmenting easier.
As to the size of the statically managed Page File, the old thinking was about 2.5x the installed physical RAM, meaning that if one had 4GB RAM, the Page File should be about 10GB. With newer OS's, and especially 64-bit with much more RAM, that is not necessary, and a more 1:1 ratio would be fine - maybe even overkill. For 12GB RAM, a 10GB Page File is probably adequate, but if one gets Memory, or Resource messages, just bump it up to 12 - 14GB.
If one is receiving "Out of Memory," or "Low on Resources," the Page File should be one of the first things considered. The next would be the possibility of a bad stick of RAM.
Good luck,
Good morning. I am encountering the same issues in Elements 9 and have read your article with interest. As I am new to changing my windows 7 system settings I wondered if you could advise. Within the advanced options both C and D rrives are shown. I can select D and set up a custom min and max paging file at 10Gb. The C drive is still showing with 4Gb of paging file. How do I get the premiere elements to use D.if I set C to zero it warns that the OS may not run. Or does it automatically default to D even if C is showing?
I do not have Win7 yet, and do not want to try to interpolate from my XP Pro SP3 OS's, as there are likely many differences between those OS's. I feel certain that Win7 users can chime in with the exact settings, and also their locations.
With Win7 64-bit, one usually has more physical RAM, than 32-bit OS's can access, so the Windows Virtual Memory might be less likely to come into play, but much will depend on the physical, installed RAM.
Good luck,
Also, see this THREAD for some additional tips.
Hi Bill,
I continue to have the low memory issues that have been referred to above.
I have a Pentium I5 processor with 8 GB RAM
OS Windows 7 64 bit
System disk 1268 GBYTE SSD
User disk with all Adobe files 1TB Fragmented 0% 500 MB free space
Video NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Running Windows 7
My project is quite small (about 10 minutes of HD video).
Below is a screencap of one file. They are all the same.
I've increased the memory size using the bcdedit command as per instruction to 3072
When I try and render the timeline, it seems to run ,but only a few of the red bars turn green.
All of the video that has a red bar shows no video(only black).
When I insert a video and hit enter, it tries to render but the bar doesn't turn green.
I've spent many hours digging through all the forums and I seem to have done everything suggested with no results.
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Misuse of statistics
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A misuse of statistics occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood. In some cases, the misuse may be accidental. In others, it is purposeful and for the gain of the perpetrator. When the statistical reason involved is false or misapplied, this constitutes a statistical fallacy.
The false statistics trap can be quite damaging to the quest for knowledge. For example, in medical science, correcting a falsehood may take decades and cost lives.
Misuses can be easy to fall into. Professional scientists, even mathematicians and professional statisticians, can be fooled by even some simple methods, even if they are careful to check everything. Scientists have been known to fool themselves with statistics due to lack of knowledge of probability theory and lack of standardization of their tests.
- 1 Types of misuse
- 2 See also
- 3 Notes
- 4 References
- 5 Further reading
Types of misuse[edit]
Discarding unfavorable data[edit]
All a company has to do to promote a neutral (useless) product is to find or conduct, for example, 40 studies with a confidence level of 95%. If the product is really useless, this would on average produce one study showing the product was beneficial, one study showing it was harmful and thirty-eight inconclusive studies (38 is 95% of 40). This tactic becomes more effective the more studies there are available. Organizations that do not publish every study they carry out, such as tobacco companies denying a link between smoking and cancer, anti-smoking advocacy groups and media outlets trying to prove a link between smoking and various ailments, or miracle pill vendors, are likely to use this tactic.
Another common technique is to perform a study that tests a large number of dependent (response) variables at the same time. For example, a study testing the effect of a medical treatment might use as dependent variables the probability of survival, the average number of days spent in the hospital, the patient's self-reported level of pain, etc. This also increases the likelihood that at least one of the variables will by chance show a correlation with the independent (explanatory) variable.
Loaded questions[edit]
The answers to surveys can often be manipulated by wording the question in such a way as to induce a prevalence towards a certain answer from the respondent. For example, in polling support for a war, the questions:
- Do you support the attempt by the USA to bring freedom and democracy to other places in the world?
- Do you support the unprovoked military action by the USA?
will likely result in data skewed in different directions, although they are both polling about the support for the war. A better way of wording the question could be "Do you support the current US military action abroad?"
Another way to do this is to precede the question by information that supports the "desired" answer. For example, more people will likely answer "yes" to the question "Given the increasing burden of taxes on middle-class families, do you support cuts in income tax?" than to the question "Considering the rising federal budget deficit and the desperate need for more revenue, do you support cuts in income tax?"
Overgeneralization is a fallacy occurring when a statistic about a particular population is asserted to hold among members of a group for which the original population is not a representative sample.
For example, suppose 100% of apples are observed to be red in summer. The assertion "All apples are red" would be an instance of overgeneralization because the original statistic was true only of a specific subset of apples (those in summer), which is not expected to representative of the population of apples as a whole.
A real-world example of the overgeneralization fallacy can be observed as an artifact of modern polling techniques, which prohibit calling cell phones for over-the-phone political polls. As young people are more likely than other demographic groups to lack a conventional "landline" phone, a telephone poll that exclusively surveys responders of calls landline phones, may cause the poll results to undersample the views of young people, if no other measures are taken to account for this skewing of the sampling.
Thus, a poll examining the voting preferences of young people using this technique may not be a perfectly accurate representation of young peoples' true voting preferences as a whole without overgeneralizing, because the sample used excludes young people that carry only cell phones, who may or may not have voting preferences that differ from the rest of the population.
Overgeneralization often occurs when information is passed through nontechnical sources, in particular mass media.
Biased samples[edit]
Misreporting or misunderstanding of estimated error[edit]
If a research team wants to know how 300 million people feel about a certain topic, it would be impractical to ask all of them. However, if the team picks a random sample of about 1000 people, they can be fairly certain that the results given by this group are representative of what the larger group would have said if they had all been asked.
This confidence can actually be quantified by the central limit theorem and other mathematical results. Confidence is expressed as a probability of the true result (for the larger group) being within a certain range of the estimate (the figure for the smaller group). This is the "plus or minus" figure often quoted for statistical surveys. The probability part of the confidence level is usually not mentioned; if so, it is assumed to be a standard number like 95%.
The two numbers are related. If a survey has an estimated error of ±5% at 95% confidence, it also has an estimated error of ±6.6% at 99% confidence. ±% at 95% confidence is always ±% at 99% confidence for a normally distributed population.
The smaller the estimated error, the larger the required sample, at a given confidence level.
at 95.4% confidence:
±1% would require 10,000 people.
±2% would require 2,500 people.
±3% would require 1,111 people.
±4% would require 625 people.
±5% would require 400 people.
±10% would require 100 people.
±20% would require 25 people.
±25% would require 16 people.
±50% would require 4 people.
People may assume, because the confidence figure is omitted, that there is a 100% certainty that the true result is within the estimated error. This is not mathematically correct.
Many people may not realize that the randomness of the sample is very important. In practice, many opinion polls are conducted by phone, which distorts the sample in several ways, including exclusion of people who do not have phones, favoring the inclusion of people who have more than one phone, favoring the inclusion of people who are willing to participate in a phone survey over those who refuse, etc. Non-random sampling makes the estimated error unreliable.
On the other hand, people may consider that statistics are inherently unreliable because not everybody is called, or because they themselves are never polled. People may think that it is impossible to get data on the opinion of dozens of millions of people by just polling a few thousands. This is also inaccurate[citation needed]. A poll with perfect unbiased sampling and truthful answers has a mathematically determined margin of error, which only depends on the number of people polled.
However, often only one margin of error is reported for a survey. When results are reported for population subgroups, a larger margin of error will apply, but this may not be made clear. For example, a survey of 1000 people may contain 100 people from a certain ethnic or economic group. The results focusing on that group will be much less reliable than results for the full population. If the margin of error for the full sample was 4%, say, then the margin of error for such a subgroup could be around 13%.
There are also many other measurement problems in population surveys.
The problems mentioned above apply to all statistical experiments, not just population surveys.
False causality[edit]
When a statistical test shows a correlation between A and B, there are usually six possibilities:
- A causes B.
- B causes A.
- A and B both partly cause each other.
- A and B are both caused by a third factor, C.
- B is caused by C which is correlated to A.
- The observed correlation was due purely to chance.
The sixth possibility can be quantified by statistical tests that can calculate the probability that the correlation observed would be as large as it is just by chance if, in fact, there is no relationship between the variables. However, even if that possibility has a small probability, there are still the four others.
If the number of people buying ice cream at the beach is statistically related to the number of people who drown at the beach, then nobody would claim ice cream causes drowning because it's obvious that it isn't so. (In this case, both drowning and ice cream buying are clearly related by a third factor: the number of people at the beach).
This fallacy can be used, for example, to prove that exposure to a chemical causes cancer. Replace "number of people buying ice cream" with "number of people exposed to chemical X", and "number of people who drown" with "number of people who get cancer", and many people will believe you. In such a situation, there may be a statistical correlation even if there is no real effect. For example, if there is a perception that a chemical site is "dangerous" (even if it really isn't) property values in the area will decrease, which will entice more low-income families to move to that area. If low-income families are more likely to get cancer than high-income families (this can happen for many reasons, such as a poorer diet or less access to medical care) then rates of cancer will go up, even though the chemical itself is not dangerous. It is believed[1] that this is exactly what happened with some of the early studies showing a link between EMF (electromagnetic fields) from power lines and cancer.[2]
In well-designed studies, the effect of false causality can be eliminated by assigning some people into a "treatment group" and some people into a "control group" at random, and giving the treatment group the treatment and not giving the control group the treatment. In the above example, a researcher might expose one group of people to chemical X and leave a second group unexposed. If the first group had higher cancer rates, the researcher knows that there is no third factor that affected whether a person was exposed because he controlled who was exposed or not, and he assigned people to the exposed and non-exposed groups at random. However, in many applications, actually doing an experiment in this way is either prohibitively expensive, infeasible, unethical, illegal, or downright impossible. For example, it is highly unlikely that an IRB would accept an experiment that involved intentionally exposing people to a dangerous substance in order to test its toxicity. The obvious ethical implications of such types of experiments limit researchers' ability to empirically test causation.
Proof of the null hypothesis[edit]
In a statistical test, the null hypothesis () is considered valid until enough data proves it wrong. Then is rejected and the alternative hypothesis () is considered to be proven as correct. By chance this can happen, although is true, with a probability denoted alpha, the significance level. This can be compared to the judicial process, where the accused is considered innocent () until proven guilty () beyond reasonable doubt (alpha).
But if data does not give us enough proof to reject , this does not automatically prove that is correct. If, for example, a tobacco producer wishes to demonstrate that its products are safe, it can easily conduct a test with a small sample of smokers versus a small sample of non-smokers. It is unlikely that any of them will develop lung cancer (and even if they do, the difference between the groups has to be very big in order to reject ). Therefore it is likely—even when smoking is dangerous—that our test will not reject . If is accepted, it does not automatically follow that smoking is proven harmless. The test has insufficient power to reject , so the test is useless and the value of the "proof" of is also null.
This can—using the judicial analogue above—be compared with the truly guilty defendant who is released just because the proof is not enough for a guilty verdict. This does not prove the defendant's innocence, but only that there is not proof enough for a guilty verdict.
Data dredging[edit]
Data dredging is an abuse of data mining. In data dredging, large compilations of data are examined in order to find a correlation, without any pre-defined choice of a hypothesis to be tested. Since the required confidence interval to establish a relationship between two parameters is usually chosen to be 95% (meaning that there is a 95% chance that the relationship observed is not due to random chance), there is a thus a 5% chance of finding a correlation between any two sets of completely random variables. Given that data dredging efforts typically examine large datasets with many variables, and hence even larger numbers of pairs of variables, spurious but apparently statistically significant results are almost certain to be found by any such study.
Note that data dredging is a valid way of finding a possible hypothesis but that hypothesis must then be tested with data not used in the original dredging. The misuse comes in when that hypothesis is stated as fact without further validation.
Data manipulation[edit]
Informally called "fudging the data," this practice includes selective reporting (see also publication bias) and even simply making up false data.
Examples of selective reporting abound. The easiest and most common examples involve choosing a group of results that follow a pattern consistent with the preferred hypothesis while ignoring other results or "data runs" that contradict the hypothesis.
Psychic researchers have long disputed studies showing people with ESP ability. Critics accuse ESP proponents of only publishing experiments with positive results and shelving those that show negative results. A "positive result" is a test run (or data run) in which the subject guesses a hidden card, etc., at a much higher frequency than random chance.[citation needed]
Scientists, in general, question the validity of study results that cannot be reproduced by other investigators. However, some scientists refuse to publish their data and methods.[3]
Non-enduring class fallacies[edit]
This type of fallacy involves the claim or implication that members of a statistical class persist over time when this is in fact not the case. The claims as applied to that statistical class may indeed be statistically correct, however the fallacy lies in the implication that the statistical class is composed of the same individuals from one point in time to the next.
For example, the claim by congressman Bernie Sanders in 2011 that "the top 1% of all income earners in the USA made 23.5% of all income", while being statistically correct, may still be fallacious due to the implication that this class composed of the top 1% is an enduring statistical class composed of the same individuals as in the previous year. While it may be true that many of the individuals in this class persist from the previous year, no indication of how many of these individuals do in fact persist was given in the original statement, and this led to the fallacious implication that all individuals in the class endured.
This fallacy can easily be avoided by specifying whether the statistics used refer to the same group of individuals over the period in question. When this precaution is not taken then suspicions of this fallacy may be raised, even if the fallacy has in fact not been committed.
Other fallacies[edit]
Also, the post facto fallacy assumes that an event for which a future likelihood can be measured had the same likelihood of happening once it has already occurred. Thus, if someone had already tossed 9 coins and each has come up heads, people tend to assume that the likelihood of a tenth toss also being heads is 1023 to 1 against (which it was before the first coin was tossed) when in fact the chance of the tenth head is 50% (assuming the coin is unbiased). This error has led, in the UK, to the false imprisonment of women for murder when the courts were given the prior statistical likelihood of a woman's 3 children dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as being the chances that their already dead children died from the syndrome. This led to statements from Roy Meadow that the chance they had died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome were extremely small (one in millions). The courts then handed down convictions in spite of the statistical inevitability that a few women would suffer this tragedy. The convictions were eventually overturned (and Meadow was subsequently struck off the U.K. Medical Register for giving "erroneous" and "misleading" evidence, although this was later reversed by the courts).[4] Meadow's calculations were irrelevant to these cases, but even if they were, using the same methods of calculation would have shown that the odds against two cases of infanticide were even smaller (one in billions).[4]
See also[edit]
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Misleading graph, discusses problems arising from graphical presentations.
- Deception
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- ^ http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7460-large-study-links-power-lines-to-childhood-cancer.html
- ^ http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=214
- ^ a b Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, Chances Are (Adventures in Probability), Viking Penguin, 2006, pp. 192-5. ISBN 978-0143038344
- Christensen, R. and T. Reichert, (1976) "Unit Measure Violations in Pattern Recognition, Ambiguity and Irrelevancy," Pattern Recognition, 4, 239–245 doi:10.1016/0031-3203(76)90044-3
- Hooke, R. (1983) How to tell the liars from the statisticians; Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.
- Jaffe, A.J. and H.F. Spirer (1987) Misused Statistics; Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.
- Campbell, S.K. (1974), Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking; Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
- Oldberg, T. (2005) "An Ethical Problem in the Statistics of Defect Detection Test Reliability," Speech to the Golden Gate Chapter of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. Published on the Web by ndt.net at http://www.ndt.net/article/v10n05/oldberg/oldberg.htm.
- Oldberg, T. and R. Christensen (1995) "Erratic Measure" in NDE for the Energy Industry 1995, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. ISBN 0-7918-1298-7 (pages 1–6) Republished on the Web by ndt.net
- Ercan I, Yazici B, Yang Y, Ozkaya G, Cangur S, Ediz B, Kan I (2007) "Misusage of Statistics in Medical Researches", European Journal of General Medicine, 4 (3),127–133
- Ercan I, Yazici B, Ocakoglu G, Sigirli D, Kan I Review of Reliability and Factors Affecting the Reliability, InterStat, 2007 April, 8
- Stone, M. (2009) Failing to Figure: Whitehall's Costly Neglect of Statistical Reasoning, Civitas, London. ISBN 1-906837-07-4
Further reading[edit]
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- Galbraith, J.; Stone, M. (2011). "The abuse of regression in the National Health Service allocation formulae: Response to the Department of Health's 2007 'resource allocation research paper'". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 174 (3): 517–528. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00700.x.


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The issue of race and whether it should be a consideration in college admission criteria is back on the Supreme Court's plate.
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So, how much longer will we have to debate the merits of affirmative action? Not long.
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Not saying I'm expecting them on the lineup, but don't you think that while agreeing to pay them some insane seven figure sum (more than almost anyone else would pay), GV would also try to have rights to the worldwide hype and publicity that would come from running the first confirmed DP show after such a long hiatus?
Daft Punk will never play a show again, if the contract they signed with Disney has anything to do with it.
You're probably right. Daft Punk signed an extremely restrictive, multi-decade contract with Disney all so they could score every shitty new movie that the company churns out.
It seems that they did good as far as their bank accounts are concerned, but they basically fucked the fans. The same fans who come in here every single day begging for DP. There's always youtube
did you really just bring zafocaine to this side of the board. FUCK!
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I don't see them doing any shows before Coachella 2014, and given what's happened (or hasn't, rather) in recent years, I wouldn't be surprised if they waited even later.
4/27 Ghost B.C. @ Fonda, 4/30 Mono @ Troubadour, 5/3 I Break Horses @ Bootleg Theater, 5/19 Lykke Li @ The Theatre at Ace, 5/28-6/1 Primavera Sound, 6/18-22 Sled Island, 8/2 Burger a-Go-Go
Daft Punk will release their first studio album in eight years in May
Someone please assure me that they won't end up at something like Lolla or Roo for their first American festival back...
No one can assure you anything, but if you read this thread you'll see that they currently have no plans to play this year.
That's all I needed to hear. Smoochies.
we would all have to go wherever they do their first show...it would be really convenient if they would play Coachella though.
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Sorry for bumping with this misleading title, but Daft Punk just changed their cover photo, profile picture, and posted a link to their website on Facebook. And if it wasn't already, they confirmed their label as Columbia as the logo is in their cover photo. something is happening...
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